For a short poem, no longer than 16 lines.

GUIDELINES

Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. Become a member and enter all 7 awards for free.

The fee for non-members is $10 for this award.

Personal identification must not appear in the submission document anywhere, including the file name.

Only one entry per award.

You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award. The exception: Individual poems submitted to Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.

The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please withdraw the submission if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication.

Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.

Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.

A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.

We cannot accept corrections after submission.

Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.

All submissions are judged anonymously.

JUDGE

Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently A Pillow Book, which The New York Times named one of the best books of poetry of 2016. Her work has appeared in Harpers, the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She teaches poetry at the University of Chicago.